{"id":47411,"date":"2022-06-21T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libmod.de\/voelkermord-in-der-ukraine-und-deutsche-historische-verantwortung\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:15:21","slug":"genocide-in-ukraine-and-german-historical-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libmod.de\/en\/genocide-in-ukraine-and-german-historical-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide in Ukraine and German historical responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Open letter to the German Government and the Bundestag: Russian warfare fulfils the central charac\u00adter\u00adistics of genocide. Germany must fulfil its \u201cRespon\u00adsi\u00adbility to Protect\u201d.<\/h2>\n

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen<\/p>\n

we would like to draw your attention to the letter which renowned histo\u00adrians, experts in inter\u00adna\u00adtional law and public figures have addressed to the Bundestag and the German Government.<\/p>\n

In response to the crimes of Nazi Germany, the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. The Convention obliges the inter\u00adna\u00adtional community to take preventive action to avert the danger of genocide and to protect threatened civilian populations.<\/p>\n

At present, a war of exter\u00admi\u00adnation is taking place before our eyes against the people of Ukraine, which bears all the hallmarks of genocide.<\/p>\n

The letter\u2019s signa\u00adtories call on the Bundestag and the German Government to live up to their \u201cRespon\u00adsi\u00adbility to Protect\u201d.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, lawmakers and the government should ensure that those respon\u00adsible for wars of aggression and genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity are held accountable.<\/p>\n

What is the sense in the German \u201cNever Again\u201d mantra if we do not do every\u00adthing in our might to stop the genocide in Ukraine \u2013 a country where the Wehrmacht and the SS committed horrific crimes during World War II.<\/p>\n

Marieluise Beck & Ralf F\u00fccks<\/p>\n

Center for Liberal Modernity
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Open letter to the Federal Government and the Bundestag<\/h2>\n

SAVE UKRAINIANS FROM GENOCIDE<\/h3>\n

Nobody can say we didn\u2019t know<\/h3>\n
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Members of Parliament,<\/p>\n

In response to the crimes of the Nazis, the inter\u00adna\u00adtional community came together in 1948 and negotiated the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.<\/p>\n

Whoever holds a political mandate in Germany has got a special oblig\u00adation to protect this core of inter\u00adna\u00adtional criminal law. Otherwise, the German vow of \u201cnever again\u201d would lose any meaning. The German acts of aggression, the Genocide of the European Jews, the horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Slavic population in Eastern Europe during the Second World War put a heavy onus on the German people to do every\u00adthing in their power to prevent those crimes in the future. Not by accident did Ukrainian-Jewish associ\u00ada\u00adtions turn to Germany for protection when the Russian war of aggression began on February 24.<\/p>\n

Today we are confronted with a war of exter\u00admi\u00adnation in the middle of Europe, which shows all the charac\u00adter\u00adistics of genocide.<\/p>\n

Article II of the United Nations Genocide Convention defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such. The Convention obligates the inter\u00adna\u00adtional community to take preventive action to avert the threat of genocide and to protect the threatened civilian population.<\/p>\n

A current jurispru\u00addential study by the renowned Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy[1]<\/a> metic\u00adu\u00adlously demon\u00adstrates that Russian warfare bears the central charac\u00adter\u00adistics of an intended genocide. These include:<\/p>\n